Category «Education»

How The Heck Does GPS Work?

PerThirtySix – How geometry, stopwatches, and Einstein’s theories work together to make GPS possible. “If you’re like me, you might be entirely dependent on GPS to navigate the world. At some point, you may have caught yourself wondering during those panicked moments when an exit is coming up and your phone is recalibrating: how does …

Subjects: Education, Internet, Transportation

What Will It Take to Get A.I. Out of Schools?

The New Yorker – Gift Article – “The tech world assumes that A.I.-aided education is necessary and inevitable. A growing number of parents, educators, and cognitive scientists say the opposite. I don’t like A.I., and I am raising my children not to like it. I’ve been telling them for years now that chatbots are manipulative …

Subjects: AI, Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Search Engines

The Horrors That Could Lie Ahead if Vaccines Vanish

ProPublica: “Researchers at Stanford University modeled how many people could die or be disabled in 25 years if vaccines for polio, measles, rubella or diphtheria were no longer available. Before vaccines, death and disability stalked children. Then shots turned once-common infections into something doctors only read about in textbooks. When immunization rates drop, however, plagues …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Education, Health Care, Medicine

It’s Getting Harder to Spot AI in Contemporary Publishing. And That’s Very, Very Bad.

Literary Hub: “Lately there has been a lot of hand-wringing, and rightly so, about if and how the publishing industry will deal with AI in the wake of the cancelation of the first major book deal due to suspected AI usage. There is no easy solution to AI detection for many reasons, partly because large …

Subjects: AI, Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Search Engines

Nothing speaks.

The Verge: “Nothing has launched Essential Voice, a dictation tool that tidies speech in more than 100 languages and sounds similar to a product Google launched earlier this month. It supports shortcuts for repeated words and phrases and speech-to-text translation. It’s currently only available for Phone (3) and Phone (4a) Pro, but Nothing hopes it’s …

Subjects: Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Archaeologists Find Iliad “Catalog of Ships” Papyrus Inside Egyptian Mummy

Arkeonews: “Archaeologists working at the ancient site of Oxyrhynchus in Egypt’s Minya Governorate have uncovered a Roman-era burial that combines rare funerary objects with an unexpected literary find: a papyrus fragment from Homer’s Iliad concealed inside a mummy. A Spanish-Egyptian excavation team working at the ancient site of Oxyrhynchus (modern-day El-Bahnasa) has uncovered a Roman-era …

Subjects: Education

We Don’t Really Know How A.I. Works. That’s a Problem

The New York Times: “For us to trust it on certain subjects, researchers in the growing field of interpretability might need to learn how to open the black box of its brain… A.I. system is to ask the model to explain itself. If a therapy language model tells you that you should take antidepressants, you …

Subjects: AI, E-Records, Education, Health Care, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Social Media

The hidden ROI of AI: What leaders should actually measure

Fortune: “The promise of AI seems almost unlimited. Organizations worldwide are expanding access, investing heavily, and launching pilots at speed. Despite this optimism, the reality is more complex: the hardest work is moving AI pilots into production and measuring success beyond immediate financial returns. Deloitte has seen this dynamic first-hand: broad access is necessary, but …

Subjects: AI, Data Governance, Education, Intellectual Property, Knowledge Management, Marketing

5 more collections that put their archives online for everyone

Card Catalog: 5 more collections that put their archives online for everyone  From 2,000 years of medical illustration to vintage software preserved in a browser, these five free digital archives cover an enormous range of human record-keeping. Wellcome Collection (wellcomecollection.org) Over 100,000 images spanning 2,000 years of medical history, all free to download under Creative …

Subjects: Education, Knowledge Management, Libraries, Search Engines

AI in Finance and Banking, April 15, 2026

Via LLRX – AI in Finance and Banking, April 15, 2026 – This twice a month column by Sabrina I. Pacifici highlights news, government documents, NGO/IGO papers, conferences, industry white papers and reports, academic papers and speeches, and central bank actions on the subject of AI’s fast paced impact on the banking and finance sectors. The …

Subjects: AI, Economy, Education, Financial System, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Search Engines

OPM cuts degree requirements for government tech jobs in new standards

Prefacing this update to include, not referenced in this article, job applicants for federal employment are now asked to answer questions to determine loyalty to Trump and willingness to execute Trump’s Executive Orders. Via NextGov/FCW: “The Office of Personnel Management released new classification and qualification standards for technology employees on Monday that make it easier …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Education, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

AI and the Future of Pedagogy

This white paper explores how education can respond to the rise of AI argues that technology should enhance, not undermine, core skills — such as critical thinking — and offers practical guidance for integrating AI into teaching while fostering meaningful, human-centered learning. Tom Chatfield’s AI and the Future of Pedagogy cautions against letting AI erode …

Subjects: AI, Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Search Engines